This programme only shows oral presentations and the main events of the symposium. 92 ePosters will be available for viewing at any time during the symposium.
Monday, June 7, 2021June 7th | |
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9:30 to 10:00 | Opening ceremony |
10:00 to 11:00 | Plenary Conference Asier Hilario President of the IUGS International Commission on Geoheritage Geological heritage and UNESCO Global Geoparks: Memory of the Earth, future for the people. |
12:30 to 14:20 | Scientific Session I - Geotourism, UG Geoparks and local development |
12:30 | Session chairwoman: Lesley Dunlop
Northumbria University (United Kingdom) |
12:35 | Geosites – Geoparks in Greece: the management of Geoheritage as a tool for sustainable
development and alternative tourism
Moraiti Evgenia, Barsaki Vasiliki and Zananiri Irene |
12:50 | Can the rocks actually sing? : A case study about a complete learning experience on the
thematic trail “Music of Nature” in Hateg Country UNESCO Global Geopark
Adina Maria Popa, Dan Horațiu Popa, Alexandru Andrășanu and Simona Delia Meliță |
13:05 | Estrela UNESCO Global Geopark as a sustainable development strategy
Patrícia Azevedo, Fábio Loureiro, Emanuel de Castro and Hugo Gomes |
13:20 | A multidisciplinary GIS-database for a holistic local management of the Courel Mountains
UNESCO Global Geopark (Spain)
Daniel Ballesteros, Pablo Caldevilla, Ramón Vila, Xosé Carlos Barros, Laura Rodríguez-Rodríguez, Manuel García-Ávila, Elvira Sahuquillo, Miguel Llorente, José Bienvenido Diez, Mercedes Fuertes-Fuente, Susana M. Timón-Sánchez, Arturo de Lombera-Hermida, Iván Álvarez, Irene Pérez-Cáceres, Manuel Acebo, Pilar Orche Amaré and Martín Alemparte |
13:35 | 3GEO – Geoclimbing and Geotrekking in Geoparks: sustainable practices for enhancing the
tourist and education experience
Irene Maria Bollati, Jasper Knight, Mohammed Alkindi, Charalampos Fassoulas, Eugenio Fazio, Ricardo Galeno Fraga de Araújo Pereira, Manuel García – Rodríguez, Hugo Gomes, Manuel Schilling, Cristina Viani, Anna Masseroli, Giuseppe Maria Amato, Tiziana Apuani, Patricia Azevedo, Tullio Bagnati, Enrique Fernandez Escalante, Martina Forzese, Marco Giardino, Manuela Pelfini, Enrico Zanoletti and Michele Zucali |
13:50 | Virtual tour through Seridó Aspiring Geopark geosites’: Google StreetView© as a
geotouristic and geoeducational tool
Silas Samuel dos Santos Costa, Marcos Antonio Leite do Nascimento, Matheus Lisboa Nobre da Silva, Marília Cristina Santos Souza Dias and Janaína Luciana de Medeiros |
14:05 | Challenges in the Development of the Appalachian Geopark (USA)
Robert Clyde Burns and Jasmine Cardozo Moreira |
15:00 to 17:00 | Intensive short course on geoconservation Enrique Díaz-Martínez Geological Survey of Spain (IGME, CSIC) Part I: Basic concepts |
16:00 to 18:00 | Meeting of the Geoheritage Commission of the Association of
Iberoamerican Geological and Mining Surveys (ASGMI)
Meeting to update latest results and advances in geoconservation in Ibero-American countries. Open only to its members. |
18:00 to 20:00 | 1st Workshop of the EuroGeoSurveys Geoheritage
Expert Group
First meeting to coordinate efforts from European geological surveys (EuroGeosurveys) towards geoconservation in Europe. Open only to group members. |
June 8th | |
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9:00 to 11:20 | Scientific Session II - Management and conservation |
9:00 | Session chairman: José Brilha
University of Minho (Portugal) |
9:05 | The Geoconservation Trust Aotearoa. A transdiciplinary approach to science,
conservation, education, tourism, and art
Ilmars Gravis, Károly Németh and Chris Twemlow |
9:20 | Geomorphological heritage of sandstone areas in SW Poland – conservation and
interpretation issues
Filip Duszyński and Piotr Migoń |
9:35 | Tourist caves in Slovenia in terms of their nature conservation and management
Martina Stupar, Mina Dobravc and Ljudmila Strahovnik |
9:50 | The "Save a Rock" program at COP25: citizen science to raise awareness about the impact
of climate change on geoconservation
Juana Vegas, Ana Cabrera, Gonzalo Lozano, Andrés Díez-Herrero, Luis Carcavilla, Enrique Díaz-Martínez, Alicia González, Javier Luengo, Ángel Salazar and Ángel García-Cortés |
10:05 | Establishing management priorities for geoconservation in Cajón del Maipo Geopark
project, Chile
Camilo Vergara Daskam and Cristóbal Estay Daskam |
10:20 | Threatened, damaged or destroyed geoheritage. Challenge and opportunity
Colin D. Prosser |
10:35 | Geoheritage, land-use planning and the sad case of Donald Trump's Scottish golf course
Murray Gray |
10:50 | Positive changes on conservation of an active spring mineral deposit in Dos Aguas
Geosite during the COVID´19 confinement (Taburiente Caldera National Park, La Palma,
Canary Islands)
Inés Galindo, Juana Vegas, José Heriberto Lorenzo, Esther Martín-González, Nieves Sánchez and Carmen Romero |
11:05 | Sustainable management and development of the World Heritage area of the High Coast,
Sweden
Kristian Schoning and Lena Lundqvist |
12:30 to 14:20 | Scientific Session III - Management and conservation / Geoconservation in protected areas |
12:30 | Session chairman: Paulo Pereira
University of Minho (Portugal) |
12:35 | Geoheritage tourism value in the Peneda-Gerês National Park (Portugal): quantitative
assessment and valorisation proposals
Andreia Afonso and Paulo Pereira |
12:50 | The karst geoheritage of Tara National Park (Serbia) and its potential use in geotourism
Tamás Telbisz, Jelena Ćalić, Jelena Kovačević-Majkić, Ranko Milanović, Jovana Brankov and Jasna Micić |
13:05 | Restoration of a geological landscape in the high Arctic, Svalbard, Norway
Lars Erikstad and Dagmar Hagen |
13:20 | Orígens Geopark inventory and fieldwork good-practice-protocol as tools for
geoconservation
Xavier Mir Pellicer and Joan Poch |
13:35 | Using geodiversity index map to select priority areas for assessing ecosystem services
in the central coast of São Paulo, Brazil
Debora Silva Queiroz and Maria da Glória Motta Garcia |
13:50 | Cultural ecosystem services of geodiversity and awareness-raising on geoconservation: a
perspective from the Ceará Central Domain, North-eastern Brazil
Pâmella Moura and Maria da Glória Motta Garcia |
14:05 | How protected are geosites in protected areas? An analysis from the geoheritage of the
state of São Paulo, Brazil
Maria da Glória Garcia, Lígia Maria de Almeida Ribeiro and Karina Kawai Higa |
15:00 to 17:00 | Intensive short course on geoconservation Enrique Díaz-Martínez Geological Survey of Spain (IGME, CSIC) Part II: Geoheritage inventories |
17:00 to 18:50 | Scientific Session IV - Geoheritage and cultural heritage / Education and public outreach |
17:00 | Session chairman: Lars Erikstad
Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (Norway) |
17:05 | New potential geoheritage assets surrounded with the cultural heritage from Dikili and
Madra Mountain (Western Anatolia, Izmir Turkey)
Ökmen Sümer, Mehmet Akbulut, Cüneyt Akal and Hülya İnaner |
17:20 | ELIGES: scientific criteria for selecting 10 areas of urban geosites for environmental
awareness and geotourism in Segovia (Spain)
Andrés Díez-Herrero and Juana Vegas |
17:35 | Valorisation of the Geological Values (Future Geosite Candidates) around the UNESCO World Heritage Asset of Hittite Capital Ḫattuša
Ökmen Sümer, Mehmet Akbulut, Nizamettin Kazancı, Mahmut Göktuğ Drahor, Meriç Aziz Berge, Atilla Ongar, Andreas Schachner, Hülya İnaner, Yaşar Suludere, Yavuz Hakyemez, Necip Sabri Mülazımoğlu, Sonay Boyraz-Arslan, Hamdi Mengi and Sevim Tuzcu |
17:50 | Criteria and indicators of urban geoheritage assessment for geoturistic use: the
cultural value importance of geoheritage in Rome (Italy)
Alessia Pica and Maurizio Del Monte |
18:05 | Cultural service associated with geoheritage in Seridó aspiring UNESCO Global Geopark,
Northeast Brazil
Matheus Lisboa Nobre da Silva, Marcos Antonio Leite do Nascimento, Silas Samuel dos Santos Costa and Janaína Luciana de Medeiros |
18:20 | Geoheritage in the United States: National Parks and more
Thomas Casadevall, David Mogk, and Ester Sztein |
18:35 | Public outreach for decision support at Mount Saint Helens National Monument, USA
Daniel Tormey |
June 9th | |
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9:00 to 11:20 | Scientific Session V - Inventories and research |
9:00 | Session chairman: Sven Lundqvist
Geological survey of Sweden (Sweden) |
9:05 | Geodiversity model of Coromandel Peninsula, New Zealand
Vladyslav Zakharovskyi and Károly Németh |
9:20 | Tectonic geoheritage as a forgotten opportunity to use it for natural hazard resilience
– Lessons from the Kakoura 2016 Earthquake, New Zealand
Károly Németh, Boxin Li, Boglárka Németh and Vladyslav Zakharovskyi |
9:35 | Occurrence and genesis of waterfall calc tufa deposits from semi-arid Upland Deccan
Traps, India: proxies for paleoclimate and monsoon record
Madhuri S. Ukey and Ravindrasinh G. Pardeshi |
9:50 | Mapping geosites in Albania
Ledi Moisiu, Adil Neziraj and Albert Avxhi |
10:05 | Representative and unique geosites of the Russian Caucasus
Marina S. Vdovets, Valery Ja. Vuks and Yuri Lyahnitsky |
10:20 | Feedback on twelve years work on the national geoheritage inventory in France: results
and advances for geosite protection
Isabelle Rouget, Grégoire Egoroff and Claire de Kermadec |
10:35 | Need of inventory and preservation of the Tete Fossil Forest: a recognition of the
largest fossil forest in Africa
Nelson Nhamutole, Marcelino Moiana, Marion Bamford, Ricardo Araújo, Juana Vegas and Enrique Díaz-Martínez |
10:50 | Granite blockfields of Seoraksan, Republic of Korea – diversity and geoheritage values
Piotr Migoń, Marek Kasprzak and Kyung Sik Woo |
11:05 | Putting Geoheritage on the map in Luxembourg: the ‘Mëllerdall’ (aspiring UNESCO Global
Geopark) and ‘Minett’ (UNESCO Biosphere)
Robert Weis and Birgit Kausch |
12:30 to 14:20 | 9th Meeting of ProGEO’s SE Europe Regional
Working Group This meeting attempts to coordinate planned activities and set strategies and action plans for the future geoconservation in this region of Europe. Open only to its members |
12:30 to 14:20 | 4th Meeting of ProGEO’s SW Europe Regional
Working Group This meeting attempts to coordinate geoconservation efforts from Andorra, France, Italy, Portugal and Spain, set strategies and plan actions for the future. Open only to its members |
15:00 to 17:00 | Virtual Workshop: Key Geoheritage Areas Initiative (KGA) IUCN-WCPA Geoheritage Specialist Group (GSG). To discuss the overall vision and goals for the proposed Key Geoheritage Areas (KGA) Initiative and steps to move forward. Open to anybody registered in the ProGEO symposiuym |
15:00 | Introduction of GSG and KGA
Kyung Sik Woo / Chair, WCPA Geoheritage Specialist Group |
15:05 | IUCN-RES-074: IUCN Geoheritage Resolution and future perspectives
Tim Badman / Director, IUCN World Heritage Programme |
15:20 | Concept of Key Geoheritage Areas (KGA)
José Brilha / Deputy Vice Chair, WCPA Geoheritage Specialist Group |
15:40 | What can we learn from the Key Biodiversity Areas (KBA) Programme
Nigel Dudley / IUCN WCPA |
16:00 | IGCP 731: IUGS Global Geosites. The great opportunity for the international recognition of geological heritage sites
Asier Hilario / Chair, IUGS Commission on Geoheritage (ICG) |
16:20 | Discussion & Questions |
June 10th | |
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9:00 to 11:05 | Scientific Session VI - Education and Public Outreach |
9:00 | Session chairwoman: Clare Glanville
Geological survey of Ireland (Ireland) |
9:05 | SWOT analysis of geo-educational tourism in Lushan Geopark, China
Shi Ying and Elena de Uña-Álvarez |
9:20 | How to make geology more attractive for a public through online presentation?
Markéta Vajskebrová, Martina Fifernová, Martin Lisec and Radek Svítil |
9:35 | A citizen science program to report fresh outcrops: a new tool to appropriate geological heritage in France
Asma Seinhausser, Grégoire Egoroff, Alicia Mansilla-Sanchez, Lydia Detienne and Isabelle Rouget |
9:50 | Seeking public engagement with geodiversity
J. Rodrigues, E. Costa e Silva, and D.I. Pereira |
10:05 | International Geodiversity Day: developing a global outreach initiative
José Brilha, Murray Gray, Jack Matthews and Zbigniew Zwoliński |
10:20 | Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro University (Vila Real, Portugal): a space of public outreach of geology
David Martín Freire-Lista, Javier Eduardo Becerra Becerra and Mila Simões de Abreu |
9:00 to 11:00 | Meeting of the International Commission on Geoheritage (ICG) of the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS) This meeting has the purpose of building bridges with ProGEO and informing about the new launching of the Global Geosites project led by this Commission of IUGS. Open only to its members. |
15:00 to 17:05 | Scientific Session VII - Inventories and research |
15:00 | Session chairwoman: Hülya Inaner
Dokuz Eylül University (Turkey) |
15:05 | Inventory of geosites in the Rio Grande do Norte state: first steps towards a geoheritage database for the brazilian northeast
Filipe Freire Alencar, Marília Cristina Santos Souza Dias, Ítalo Mendonça Nascimento Barbalho and Marcos Antônio Leite do Nascimento |
15:20 | Methodological discussion concerning inventory and assessment of geomorphosites: An integrated approach
Daniel Souza dos Santos, Kátia Leite Mansur, José Carlos Sícoli Seoane, Vanessa Costa Mucivuna and Emmanuel Reynard |
15:35 | National geosites inventory of Chile: preliminary results from compilation and homogenization stages
Francisca Salazar D., Felipe Fuentes C. and Manuel Arenas A. |
15:50 | Inventories of geomorphological heritage: a review of the Brazilian scientific publications
Eliana Mazzucato, Vanessa da Costa Mucivuna, Denise de La Corte Bacci and Maria da Glória Motta Garcia |
16:05 | Assessing landscape-scale geodiversity across Finland
Helena Tukiainen and Jan Hjort |
16:20 | Applying evenness measures to geodiversity evaluation
Borut Stojilković |
16:35 | Registration and assessment of geosites: Results and implications of a Norwegian study
Tine L. Angvik, Rolv Magne Dahl, Lars Erikstad and Tom Heldal |
16:50 | Geosite valorization of Ohrid-Prespa Transboundary Biosphere Reserve
Ardiana Miçi and Florina Pazari |
17:05 | Closing ceremony |
15:00 to 16:30 | Meeting of the IUCN WCPA Geoheritage Specialist Group (GSG) steering committee Open only to its members. |
18:00 to 20:00 | ProGEO General Assembly Open only to its members. |